We value, challenge and reward our people.
We treat each other with respect and dignity and develop our capabilities. We expect everyone to take personal responsibility and perform to high standards. We rely on each other for our success as a company.
Vision and Values Workshop
“Henkel Day,” September 24, 2010 – the company’s “birthday” – heralded the start of a wave of Vision and Values Workshops for Henkel’s employees around the world. In all our sites, line managers sat together with their teams in order to explore and discuss our revised vision and newly formulated values. They analyzed the direct significance that these had for their day-to-day work and drafted a list of actions for the future. Such close scrutiny gives employees a heightened awareness of the relevance of the vision and values to themselves, their team and their work, and enables them to more effectively apply the associated principles.
By the end of 2010, some 5,000 workshops had taken place around the world. Every workshop produced a specific action plan in which each team prepared a written record precisely defining time schedules and responsibilities for the identified measures.
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Employees as vital factors for success
Our new vision and the revised values have been introduced in order to contribute to establishing a sustainable “Winning Culture” within the company. A shared vision and actively promoted values generate a feeling of unity and offer us guidance in the performance of our everyday work. They encourage us to develop innovative and sustainable products, technologies and services for our customers, and to devise effective marketing, selling and distribution concepts.
Around the world, our corporate culture serves as a bond, enabling us to utilize the full potential of our internationality and diversity. Our employees have a key role to play in our future success: by being open, by adopting a positive approach to new developments and challenges, by helping to shape events, by adopting an entrepreneurial attitude and through their willingness to assume and accept responsibility.
Henkel is a globally active corporation with around 48,000 employees of whom 80 percent work outside Germany. Collaborating with our customers, they develop innovations, successfully implement strategies and provide the company with its unique identity. Our employees are a vital factor for success in the competitive international environment in which we operate.
Challenging and rewarding our people
“At Henkel, we are striving to establish a ‘Winning Culture’ characterized by a clear focus on performance and the will to succeed in a highly competitive international environment. In order to promote and underpin this corporate culture, we have put in place a system enabling us to both challenge and reward our people, encouraging outperformance with a compensation system offering clear incentives.
Our line managers bear a major responsibility for the development of their teams and the nurturing of talent through objective, candid feedback. And we encourage each and every individual to assume responsibility for their career and future development – for which Henkel as a global company offers a wide range of attractive possibilities.
Our orientation to a clear vision and shared values is an important prerequisite for the achievement of success. We want all our employees to understand our values and to incorporate them into their daily activities and decision-making processes.”
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“It is important for a company to have a vision and values for employees to follow. They reinforce what our organization is striving for and the goals we are trying to attain. They give us guidance on doing what’s best for our business.”
Crystal Frazier, Chemist, Product Development Adhesive Technologies, USA.
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“Our vision and values are authentic. Abiding by these values in our daily life will definitely help us establish a 'winning culture' and differentiate us from our competitors – by reminding us never to let the consumer down and to be compliant in all circumstances.”
Emmanuelle Manier, Key Account Lawyer, Legal Department, France.
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“Henkel performs within a family-business atmosphere, with belief and trust in its people and a willingness to take risks with them. Proof of this can be found in the emerging markets where Henkel started as a small player and is now a competitive, strategic company for its customers.”
Eduardo Díaz Cortazar, Laundry & Home Care Walmart Team Leader, Mexico.
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“The ‘people’ value supports a fundamental human need for respect, to be appreciated and rewarded for excellent performance, to be supported by our colleagues and to be part of a successful team.”
Olga Gadetskaya, Human Resources Director Henkel Russia.